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In this pop-up lecture, I had the chance to learn about Roxanne Harris. She is currently getting her Master of Fine Arts in Design Media Arts at UCLA, and “... holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University (Harris).” Also being interested in computers, I was really excited to attend. Picture of me attending the lecture!      After introducing herself, she went on to explain her background and how she had arrived at her current position. She played the saxophone in high school, and her favorite subject was math. She told us that, in short, she codes music. With her computer science background, she creates code that translates to a beat, and the more she adds, the more it turns into music. My favorite part was the fact that she could add visuals to the music. She also performs and does this live sometimes. Even though I have no musical background, I still found this super cool because I’ve never heard of this before. “For as long as we can trace, visual ...

  The practice of medicine dates back as early as 10,900 BCE. Andreas Vesalius was known as the founder of modern human anatomy. He had groundbreaking work and a new approach, at the time, to studying the human body through dissections and very accurate illustrations. The book Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray was a ground-breaking text known for its well-written descriptions and images of human anatomy. Even today, many doctors still refer to this book. (Gray) Technology was incorporated into hospitals in the early 20th century. The first MRI image actually took 5 hours to produce. Now hospitals use all sorts of technology to help patients, inclusing MRI machines and X-rays. First Mri Machine in 1973 (Star Imaging Admin) Technology has played a huge role in the advancement of medicine. Two people have used this to their advantage and turned it into art. “Using an iPad app created by Virgil Wong and Katie McCurdy through their company Medical Avatar LLC, patients track and communica...

     When talking about robotics and art, Walter Benjamin voices his opinions on how mechanical reproductions have impacted art in an essay he wrote in 1935. He explains that mechanical reproduction devalues the uniqueness, or aura, of a work of art. “An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for they lead us to an all- important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on Ritual (Benjamin).” From: https://www.fundacioangelusnovus.org/en/walter-benjamin-house/   (Benjamin)      We know now that robotics has played a huge role in art, especially in films. The first animated TV series in Japan was called Astro Boy. Astro Boy is a classic Japanese manga and anime about a powerful robot boy created by Dr. Tenma after the loss of his son. Astro Boy is gifted with incredible abilities and fights for justice and harmo...

     This week in class, we got to learn about the connections between art and mathematics. As someone who enjoyed art in high school and is now a math major in college, I was really excited. One of the first lessons they teach in art class is about perspective. Using a vanishing point, all parallel lines in your artwork should converge to this vanishing point. “A perspective drawing is in one-point perspective if (i) only one vanishing point V is used, and (ii) image lines which converge to V represent lines in the real world which are orthogonal to the picture plane (Frantz).” This picture shows a simple example of a vanishing point V. (Frantz)      Math is seen everywhere. In a movie called Good Will Hunting , there is a troubled boy named Will with amazing mathematical talents. The movie shows the challenges he faces from his ability to solve complex problems and what can come from it. There is a challenging problem that the professor posts for his stu...

  My name is Lauren, and I am an applied mathematics major here at UCLA. Something I noticed before this class was about the two types of bachelor's degrees, art and science. I’ve always wondered why it was those two. "A bachelor of arts usually includes broader general instruction in the liberal arts and humanities, whereas a bachelor of science includes more focused, applied work (Leckrone).” I always found it interesting how my math degree falls into the science category when math even has it’s own letter in STEM. (Jung and Tak)      In 1959, C.P. Snow gave a lecture, which talked about how the separation of art and science is creating a knowledge gap. This week in class, we got a chance to learn about the division of these “two cultures.”  At UCLA, for example, the campus is split into North and South campuses, with the north side being social sciences and humanities and the south side being physical and life sciences. “It’s not as though there’s a physi...